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DavidWaters100
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6 years ago
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Switch data source from Analysis Services (Cube) to Excel

Hi,   I desinged a dashboard using analysis service connection and cube.  For various reasons I need to switch to an Excel data source instead, but under Transform data I can only change data sourc...
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    v-xuding-msft
    6 years ago

    Hi DavidWaters100 ,

     

    When we connect with live connection, it can't change data sources and can't change the mode to import either. So for this situation, unfortunately, we only can export data from SSAS to Excel and then import it into Power BI. 

     

     

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Anonymous
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6 years ago

DavidWaters100 All right, I'm super stoked that the awesome SteveCampbell published this blog Friday -> https://powerbi.tips/2020/05/hot-swap-power-bi-report-connections/ it "may" be another option for you. If you publish your Excel file report to the Service and then follow the blog and use the script you could connect to the datasource. I've done with with the AAS connection to Power BI dataset already and it works, this sounds like it would work for you as well... Worth a shot!